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Location: Penn State University

Instructor: Christina Hanawalt

Email: cad146@psu.edu

 

Course Purpose & Description:

Art Education 303 is a 3-credit course that provides opportunities for students majoring in elementary education to explore the affordances of the visual arts for teaching and learning. This course will attend to issues of children’s art making and how the visual arts can empower learning in the elementary classroom.

 

In this course, we will consider new ways of thinking about arts integration through key readings, group discussion, studio work, lesson planning, and reflection.  Although special emphasis will be given to the relationship between art and literacy, the course will also delve into the integration of art into all areas of the curriculum (science, social studies, math, etc.).  Major topics of inquiry and investigation for this course include: exploring contemporary issues in art and visual culture; attending to perspectives of children’s artistic development; locating the visual arts in relation to such issues as narrative and story, environment and place, identity and diversity; and considering relationships between image and text.